Vocabulary List #7

Friendly, good-natured, and easy to talk to

• affable

• amorphous

• erudite

• insular

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

To make someone more powerful or important; to enhance the reputation of someone beyond what is justified by the facts

• aggrandize

• wheedle

• abominate

• ascribe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

having no fixed shape or form

• amorphous

• affable

• erudite

• insular

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

a typical example of something

• archetype

• aura

• contraband

• gossamer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

The distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround or is generated by person place or thing

• aura

• archetype

• contraband

• gossamer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Goods that have been imported or exported illegally

• archetype

• aura

• contraband

• gossamer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people 

• erudite

• insular

• inscrutable

• amorphous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Something very light, thin, or delicate

• gossamer

• contraband

• affable

• inscrutable

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Impossible to understand or interpret 

• inscrutable

• insular

• erudite

• affable

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Ignorant or uninterested in culture, ideas, or people outside one’s own experience

• insular

• inscrutable

• gossamer

• amorphous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5